Deck 3: A: Contemporary Social Theories

Question 1

According to bell hooks,the women's movement in the 1960s paid little attention to the realities of black women's lives.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Queer theory is based on liberal humanist assumptions.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Going on a diet is an example of self-policing,from a Foucauldian perspective.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

According to Dorothy Smith,ruling refers to a socially organized activity among people.

Question 5

According to Foucault,power is something possessed by one individual over another.

Question 6

When females wear makeup and high heels,they are disciplining their bodies,according to Foucault.

Question 7

In Giddens's analysis,globalization is an inevitable feature of modernity based on a non-Western worldview.

Question 8

Waking up at 6:45 a.m. ,turning on your computer,and surfing the Internet to find out what the weather is like in Australia is an example of Giddens's time-space distanciation.

Question 9

Gramsci accepted Marx's analysis of the struggle between the ruling class and the subordinate working class but diverged from Marx in how the ruling class ruled.

Question 10

According to Foucault,power is distinct from knowledge.

Question 11

Whiteness studies highlight "whiteness" as a racial identity like any other.

Question 12

According to Dorothy Smith,by giving primacy to the concepts and topics recognized by the discipline of sociology,sociology has failed to move beyond hegemonic ways of knowing.

Question 13

According to Gramsci,no regime can maintain its rule by relying principally on organized state power and armed force.

Question 14

A disproportionately high number of poor African-Americans were adversely affected by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.

Question 15

Post-structuralists argue that scientific knowledge is always value laden.